Today, we discuss the five main things that have surprised me about my journey in buying multi-family. These things have shocked me throughout my journey, so hopefully you can take these five tips into your next deal!

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Drive by traffic allows you to significantly decrease the amount of expenses in your marketing budget.

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I know I’ve wondered what professional athletes do after their sports career ends. Today’s Best Ever guest shares with us how he came to find real estate success after his pro sports career ended. We discuss buy and holds, and different ways he creatively finances his deals. So listen up, because we are about to win the Lord Stanley of real estate investing!

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What did you do today to get yourself one step closer to what your goals are?

Graham Mink’s real estate background:

- Played professional hockey for 13 years and played for the Washington Capitals

- Retired in 2014 and is now a full time real estate investor primarily doing buy-and-holds

- Owns and manages 28 units and has 20 more units under contract and scheduled to close July 4th

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This born and bred New Yorker, knows all there is to know about real estate in NYC. But that’s not all! We discuss when to put your properties up for sale, and the best ways to put tenants into your rentals after one showing TODAY!

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Make sure you position your properties to come on the market at the tight time.

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Let’s remember when we were first getting started in real estate, and travel back to that day. Do you remember the basics? Well, today’s Best Ever guest does and he shares with us what your first investment looks like from the eyes of a newbie. We also discuss everything you need to know about investing in Corpus Christi, TX, an incredibly hot market YOU may want to look at.

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Getting started in real estate is not as easy as the gurus want you to think.

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Blue 42, Blue 42…Set…Hut! Today’s Best Ever guest, shares with us the ups and downs he has experienced in business, and what HE does to close his loans in 5 days or less, and his MOST successful marketing tactic. We just moved the chains, and it’s 1st & 10 for us to drive down the field to investing success.

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Today’s Best Ever guest conducts ALL the research on real estate so that you don’t have to. Listen up, as he shares with us the reasoning and research behind all of the statistics YOU use to do your due diligence.

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It pays to maybe not get the max rent that you could, in exchange for a very good tenant.

Ralph McLaughlin’s real estate background:

- Housing Economist at Trulia based in San Francisco, California

- Say hi to him @housingnomix

- Is an avid homebrewer, and one of his beers won a national award in the IPA category

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Get out your pen and paper to start taking notes on…NOTES. Today’s Best Ever guest shares with us everything you need to know about buying non-performing notes and once again, just how important doing YOUR due diligence is.

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You want to spend your time working on your business, not in your business.

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Today, we discuss how to make a decision for something that you continue to question. I have had a lot of big decisions to make recently, and have developed a step by step guide that has helped me come to the best decision for MY life. Apply this to your life today, to be sure you can stand by your decision.

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She has an incredibly inspirational story, but that’s not all! Today’s Best Ever guest shares with us her rocky road to success, how important relationships are and some impractical ways to generate leads you may not have heard of before. You'l go from eating Ramen Noodles to eating caviar if you listen to her story and take some action!

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More than anything else, our mindset controls our situation.

Kemi Egan’s real estate background:

- Author of international bestseller The Power of Real Estate Investing based in London, England

- Host of Turbo Charge Your Success podcast

- Co-founder of Freedom Academies and Freedom Investment

- Went from homeless to having a multi-million dollar real estate portfolio in just 12 months

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Today’s Best Ever guest, Robert Kiyosaki, shares with us some incredible value as to how we can do a deal with him, what YOU need to look for in a partner, and the key thing you need to be doing today so you don’t fall behind. Wow, is there a lot of value packed into our conversation with Robert, so stop what you’re doing and listen up!

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Out of every bad partnership, comes a great partner.

If you don’t invest in yourself, I won’t invest in you.

If you think you know all the answers, you’re probably gonna get your butt handed to you.

Robert Kiyosaki’s real estate background:

- Author of the most influential personal finance book of all time, Rich Dad Poor Dad

- Released Second Chance…for Your Money, Your Life and Our World in January 2015 and most recently, 8 Lessons in Military Leadership for Entrepreneurs which went on sale May 12 during Armed Forces Week

- Co-authored two books with Donald Trump and has a 3rd coming out in 2016

- Fellow podcaster who is the host of the popular podcast, The Rich Dad Radio Show

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People, people, people. Whether you are a newbie, or an experienced investor relationships are going to be the one thing that will make or break you. Listen up, as today’s Best Ever guest shares with us how to build and maintain incredible relationships, and how to find cheap deals to make CRAZY money.

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Present yourself professionally and be genuine.

Che Chiu Wong’s real estate background:

- Has a multi-million dollar portfolio and buys and never sells

- Has an electricial engineering degree but doesn’t know how to fix an electrical outlet

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You have the right to buy property, and the right to make money on those properties. Today’s Best Ever guest shares with us the ONE word you need to use when talking to a seller, how he has NEVER bought a property with a bank, private lender or hard money. So, stick your hands in the air and listen up!

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If we get to control the terms, does it really matter what the sale price is?

Mike Butler’s real estate background:

- Based in Louisville, Kentucky where he used to be an undercover police detective investing murder for hire and organized crime

- At his peak was buying 2 properties every week while he had is full-time job

- Owns and operates several hundred properties and has never gone to a bank to buy an investment property nor has he used a private lender or hard money

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Now, I know all of the Best Ever listeners know just how important the internet is in growing their business, however today’s Best Ever guest shares with us how to ensure that the internet is used to our MAXIMUM advantage. We also discuss some very necessary things that investors forget when purchasing single-family and multi-family units. So listen up, because we cover all the bases today!

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Today’s Best Ever guest uses Airbnb to pay for his mortgage. What’s Airbnb? Well, he rents spare rooms out in his house to strangers from the internet. Sounds like the start of a horror movie, right? It’s NOT, because he has formed some incredible relationships, met some amazing people, and his guests pay his mortgage every month!

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Today’s Best Ever guest shares with us some great stories about dealing with drug dealers in your units, the BEST loan to get for a newbie investor, and how to ensure that you get investigated at your desk job for investing in real estate. He got started with only $1,000 and has had immaculate success so, listen up!

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Make sure you enjoy what you’re doing. If you don’t like it, don’t do it.

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Today’s Best Ever guest shares with us a unique strategy to get more leads while others are making your calls for you. We discuss how virtual assistants can take your business to the next level, and a great strategy to make money off houses you buy at market price. Listen up, because she shares some incredible advice that can make you MORE money in LESS time.

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Are you just about ready to march into your boss’s office to tell him off and quit? Well, you better think twice about that. Today’s Best Ever guest lays out for us why it may not be wise to quit your job right away and some different lending solutions YOU may not have thought of.

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Don’t be the person that is looking at the next best thing, but is always a spectator.

Tom Hutchens’s real estate background:

- Today’s Best Ever guest shares with us Senior vice president of Angel Oak Mortgage Solutions based in Altanta

- He joined in 2014 and is responsible for sales and marketing for the company

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Today’s Best Ever guest shares with us just how important it is to make your tenants happy. From weekly BBQ’s, to buying a dog for the building she is an incredibly creative mind who might just inspire you to do more for your tenants.

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If you just kind of pave the way, your residents will make it their own.

Holli Beckman’s real estate background:

- CEO of Apartminty, a guide for apartment hunting and she is based in Washington, DC

- Spent last 15 years learning property management from the ground up

- She’s held every position from leasing agent to VP Marketing of a property management company called WC Smith

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Lions and tigers and bears - OH MY! Oh my is right, because today’s Best Ever guest has the solution to getting more leads through direct mail. We discuss Section 8 housing, how to keep tenants and some super creative financing he used for his first property. We are walking down the yellow brick road to investing success!

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Today’s Best Ever guest shares just how important it is to do you due diligence with everything. From negotiating the interest rate on your mortgage rate down to an unheard of number, to learning about different zoning codes and what they mean to you.

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It’s really important not to just think about your present needs, but to think about your future needs and goals as well.

David Reiss’s real estate background:

- Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School

- Research Director for the Center for Urban Business Entrepreneurship

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Ever want to conduct more than one deal at a time, but just don’t have the funds to do it? Well, today’s Best Ever guest has the solution to that! Listen up, because we discuss EVERYTHING that you could ever need to know about a SBRE.

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Match your capital structure to your asset model.

Matt Burk’s real estate background:

- Founder of Fairway America and is the foremost authority in the specialized field of non-instuitional sized, small balance real estate (SBRE)

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Phew! If we aren’t excited after all of the great value Dean shared with us today, we are doing something wrong! Today, Dean shares with us how to find cheap deals in your area, how to pick the Best Ever place to invest, and how he made ONE MILLION dollars off a deal everyone told him he would go broke on. Get out a pen and paper because we are in for a treat today!

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Have you ever wondered how I get my hair so thick and luscious? Well today you get to find out. That’s not all though! Today’s Best Ever guest shares with us how he found his niche in lease options, and how he gets 94% of his tenants to buy.

Best Ever Tweet:

When I stop learning, I stop earning.

John Jackson’s real estate background:

- Founder of Leasing to Buy based in Fort Worth, Texas

- Started as a self-taught day trader then got into real estate lease options in 2003

- Since 2003 he has done over 500 lease option transactions and structures them so buyer is highly likely to purchase the house

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Quick, quick, quick. Get in and get out. That is what has led our Best Ever Guest today, to incredible real estate success. We discuss his Best Ever ways to rehab properties, but he has experience in every area of real estate investing so, listen up!

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Today’s Best Ever guest shares with us, just how profitable office space is, even though it seems incredibly difficult. We discuss how to build long lasting relationships, and how to be the FIRST and last person to receive a phone call about a potential deal.

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When you’re looking for deals, spend a lot of time an energy understanding people’s incentives.

Gary Linhart’s real estate background:

- Managing director of ViaWest, co-manages the investment strategy and finance activity and leads the public markets activity for the company that is based in Phoenix, Arizona

- He has managed the company’s multifamily portfolio and oversee the acquisition, conversation and disposition of over 2,000 apartment units to condominiums

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Today’s Best Ever guest shares with us some excellent tips in order to differentiate YOUR real estate space. Everything you need to know about lead generation, and what YOU can do in order to support and cater to your tenants in order to be DIFFERENT from your competition.

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The problem that most people have, isn’t with the lead generation – it’s with the lead conversion.

Kevin Jordan’s real estate background:

- Owner of Redpoint Marketing Consultants based near Richmond, Virginia

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Years of building relationships, and proving he walks the walk led today’s Best Ever guest to get his properties 100% financed. What did he do? Well, ya better listen up because it could very well be the way YOU finance your next property.

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What is unique about YOU? We know our Best Ever listeners, sure as heck aren’t average! Today, we discuss how to translate your past experiences to find your ONE unique advantage for your real estate investing. Listen up, because finding this one advantage may be the thing you need to take your business from surviving to thriving!

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Fear may be the ONE thing holding you back from investing success. Our Best Ever guest today, took a leap off the corporate ladder into the world of investing, and hasn’t looked back since. We discuss the importance of private lending, how to find your next flip and how beneficial having a good contractor is. Don’t be afraid, because we step by step guide, so that YOU can leave the corporate world and dive into real estate.

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Get out there and start doing things.

Jared Lichtin’s real estate background:

- He has flipped over 4 properties in 2 years while having a full-time job as a lawyer

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